Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ruscarius

WoRMS 270783ITIS 167421key worms:270783

2026-08-05: itis_id 167421 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Ruscarius — Photo · David Starr Jordan , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Ruscarius is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 258 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R

258
observations: 258
records: 1959–2023
years: 1
datasets: 2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

sp Ruscarius creaseri Roughcheek sculpin204
sp Ruscarius meanyi Puget Sound sculpin54

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270783")

Ruscarius

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.